August 25, 2025 • 26 mins
Join us for a high-energy conversation with Zeddy Will, the influencer, entertainer, and creator known for his viral content and unapologetic personality. In this episode, Zeddy opens up about his journey to becoming a digital star, the challenges of staying authentic while building a brand, and how he keeps audiences laughing and engaged. From the power of social media to what’s next in his career, this interview gives listeners a closer look at the man behind the trending moments. Whether you know Zeddy for his humor, his style, or his larger-than-life energy, you won’t want to miss this episode packed with laughs, insight, and real talk.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Can you hear me? Yeah, I gave you yeap. Yeah,
we're good.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Got when you turn my camera around so you could
we solid boom, Okay here it is.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, you're good. You're good to go. How
you feeling but look good? How you doing good? Blessing
Blessing Chrystyles out of Cleveland, Ohio, w OVERU ninety five
point down FM, also the Christyles Show podcast. So hold on,
we'll go, keep going on. Let me give you a proper,
proper introduction, the proper uh Zeddi Will the rising star
from Queensbridge, Queens, New York, represented departure from the classic
(00:36):
New York hip hop narrative. His journey is just being Crazy,
Known for its distinctive blended punchy lyrics, lyricisms, and New
York flare. Zeddi boats four point eight million monthly listeners
on Spotify, ten million on TikTok, one million on Instagram,
over probably over a million subscribers now on YouTube at
(01:00):
as we talk right now with twerking with your friends
getting jiggy, and we can't forget that the chop tarpet
your number one hit cha chaw right now we're talking
about can't go Broke number one one week. That's a
top two hundred sis one point five million streams. Everybody
(01:20):
give it up one time for Zeeddy Wills is in
the builded this guy, I mean rapper. Billboard gave you
top fifteen African American R and B artists to watch
out for for twenty twenty five. How does that feel post?
I don't think you R and B, but you know
Billboard don't know.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Yeah yeah nah, I feel good Like that was really
one of my biggest accomplishments. Like just being recognized as
an artist was just something I wanted, but being recognized
to that level like it's billbos So, I feel good.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. I think one of the amazing
things from you is is watching your come up from
that song cha chaw. I'm also being a TikToker right,
and I just think you are what we call now
the new term of creator, Right, You're creator. How does
that feel being the creator? Because some people say when
they started off as a TikTok artist but they found
(02:12):
out on the radar that you really can rap rap. Uh.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
It felt good, like I said, like just me working
for that, just me working to be seen more than
just a you know TikToker or TikTok artists because I
got a bunch of different you know abilities.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
I can even run track like people.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
A lot of people don't know, but I grew up
running track and I went to college for running track
on the scholarship.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
So just being able to show, like the world all
my talents it felt good.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
So, you know, me going on the radar and giving
them a good freestyle and retrip.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Yeah, appreciate you, but yeah, we're working. We're working.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
So it's definitely all the foods my labor, showing right now,
foods to my labor.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
And being from New York because he said the New
York sound changed, and ask when we're listening to your
music by familiar with you have that New York sound
but also that Jersey Philly club essence that, well, how
did you build and create your sound when when you started, uh,
being an artist?
Speaker 2 (03:10):
I really just went for like beats that just popped
to me and that sounded fun and that made you
want to move like that was my main thing. I
definitely did start from the New Jersey you know, club beats.
You know, I started with like my first song was
Freak I was using the Jo Desy sample and then
to working with your friends was one of my biggest,
I think my biggest, one of my biggest Jersey club
songs and get Jiggy. But then I also like the
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new New Orleans sounds, the New Orleans bounce music. So
I just go for whatever's fun, whatever pops and whatever
get the people moving.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
That's that's any music for.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
You, and it's and it's dope to it because it's
going to have fun. It shows your personality and especially
being from New York. Now, how does that feel that
that weight of being for New York where the birthplace
of hip hop, right, and so it's not the traditional
boomback sound coming out in New York and then not
just from you, from different artists from uh the drill
(04:04):
music you have in New York to to your style.
How was the veterans of New York taking this?
Speaker 3 (04:12):
They loving it so far?
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Like I think a lot of veterans are just happy
that I'm, you know, being free and using all other
sounds other than like the typical New York drill.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
You know, that's that's what a lot of people from
New York are doing. There's a New York drill.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
But I think they're happy that I'm you know, I'm
getting back and you know, using good samples and not
just doing the drill and not only doing a Jersey club,
but like I said, going to the other lands doing
like people doing Brazilian funk.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
You Cashco Bang doing Brazilian funk.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
You got me hopping to the New Orleans and I'm
doing Chicago style beats now.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
So I think they taking it good anything.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
It ain't killing nobody right right.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
I think they all go with it.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Yeah, and plus New York. When they said New York
would left the building or they're not hot anymore, then
you name you and and everybody that's coming out in
New York. They they don't realize guys are from New York.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Yeah, we're all from New York.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
You know, a lot of people think I'm from like
New Jersey or Philly because I use a lot of
those beats, But yeah, I'm from New York, Queens.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Bridge right with nas and my deep everybody from.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Yeah, who is your favorite artist coming up? That's a
good question.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
My favorite so my top three?
Speaker 2 (05:15):
So I like old school music, like I like, I
love I feel like y'all music was the best music,
Like the nineties and eighties was that's the best music.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
But I go eminem, Nas and Hove like.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Those are my top three I listen to like you
can literally go I'm twenty three years old. You can
go on my Spotify, go on my Apple Music and
I bumped some albums and I listened to all the music.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Those are my top two.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Let me tell you about It's an album from Whole
that I have not listened to, and people beginning on
my back for the past three four years, I have
not listened to this album. Kennom come. I still have
not listened to the album.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
I refuse that the red that's what the that's the
red album cover?
Speaker 1 (05:49):
I think, so I refuse to listen to the album.
I despised the album.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
I think, what's on that album? Show what you got?
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Yeah, show me what you got.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
I think that's why I did listen to it because
of that song.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
You got to No. I love I love. I love
going back and listening to a lot of old school music.
But that's that's what I kind of grew up on.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
And like eminem is one of the styles that a
lot of people say, like mine, emilate because this is
just fun.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
It's poppy and it's creative.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
So it is. And you you just have a wonderful team.
I know a couple of your guys that that's on
your team. We talked about Power Moves. I've seen they
build that for a long time and Sean Prais has
been in the game for thirty years. I love the
way how they taking around. And then it hurt Hot
ninety seven for the Summer Jam. It was dead until
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you got on stage. Tell me about that. For the
performing that hot that I know you went to a
million of them. How does that fit? Talk about that
that experience.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Well, first, I don't to give you, like you said,
shout out to Power Moves, shout out to Sean Prez Jersey. Now,
those are my people. Those are the people I work
with every single day in and out. I have the
best team. I always got the best team. And people
don't understand why I sat at the best team. You know,
legit they them people. But on the Summer Jam, like
you know, I headlined the festival stage. The show people
(07:18):
that don't know about the festival stage is the show
right before the main show.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
So I did that.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
I went crazy, you know, I had Busta ROMs was
down there watching, and a bunch of my.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Fans and supporters out there. I went crazy, and.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Then I got to go out with Jim Jones, New
York legend.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
He brought me out on the main stage.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
I came out and I was seeing like the flashlights
and everybody was yelling, screaming. That was my first time
performing and oh yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, yeah, that was
my first time performing in an arena. So I got
a lot of good feedback. High ninety seven loved it,
the fans loved it. My mom was in the crowd,
my brothers and my sisters, so definitely it was good.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
What did you ever think of that? I mean, you
grew up there five Let's go back, Zeddy, let's think.
Let's talk about that ten year old kid right sitting
at home. Uh did you think you would ever get
on that stage? Was that your first level? Your first level?
What was your first love before it became this music track?
Speaker 2 (08:17):
I loved running track like that was my main thing
all throughout middle school, high school, Like I went to
I went to how.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
You six foot? I think I did mad research on
you six foot? So either it was a law jumper
or a spreader.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Nope, I did the eight hundred in the mile. I
wasn't even that. I didn't do the traditional events re mile.
I was out there six to one, run around the
track two three, four times like that was my events.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
But eight hundred is a crazy event though.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Yeah, I mean it's a sprind now it's a sprind
yea yeahs like a spread But yeah, my first love
was never music.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
My first love is never even comedy.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
I mean growing up, I was always the you know,
the class clown or the food that got kicked out
of you know classes, And I gotta kick out a
lot of schools because I just wanted to make jokes
a lot. But yeah, I was. I was tracked. So
to be on the main stage at Summer Jam. It
was never like a dream, never on the bucket list,
but being in a moment fro really good.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
I know, I know it did feel good for uh
Zi will Is in the building, hear number one artists
just coming out up and coming. And now I see you.
I don't know how long ago you how long you've
been on it, but I see you viser into twitch
now being a streamer. How how tell us that that
navigation of still have to do TikTok, still have to
(09:37):
be a streamer period on all platforms. How do you
navigate through that daily right?
Speaker 3 (09:42):
I would say, like I said, my team.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
My team helps me and you know in scheduling and
making sure we have time to you know, I have
time to make some tiktoks and promote my music, or
have time to just be in a studio or have
time to do my streams. But I think the biggest
thing transitioning into streaming was to not venture often try
to do other stuff like I'm streaming my my performances,
(10:05):
I'm streaming me in the studio, I'm streaming me collabing
with other artists, and we're not doing music where we
probably go to six Flags or where do paint and
SIPs like you know. I like to just be creative
and do a bunch of things. So getting into the
streaming lane it ain't been half for me, and I'm happy.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
I'm enjoying it a lot because I see it. I
see you pop off and now like okay, okay, he's
vien you on to another and tell another one to
see what pops off on that one. Zadi Wills is
in the building, tell us about this new record. Man,
did you think it was the first week?
Speaker 3 (10:35):
Man?
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Did you go the first week? Did you realize that?
He was like, Okay, I just dropped it all of
a sudden, shoot through charts.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
Yo.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
When I've seen the streams doing two hundred three hundred
thousand strings a day, hit a million the first week,
I'm like, WHOA. But it's always those records that you
just never know, Like that original song dropped last year
in July. You know, they and shot the jewels. He's
a producer from New York. He just put a new.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
Beat on it and it's blown up. Now I didn't
Number one country is crazy.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
That is crazy, right. That means that somebody actually pressing
that button, like you gotta press the button when you
hear it. What song is that?
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Exactly?
Speaker 1 (11:13):
What song is that?
Speaker 3 (11:14):
You know? You know it's so crazy. Our generation, nobody want.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
To ask what's soon it is? Everybody want to go ahead,
she's there. But it makes me feel good, you know,
it makes me know that people's out there trying to
figure out, you know, what's this song? And then you
know it just people discover me every day. So that's
making this a lot better.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
For me and now after you what news opportunities that
came about? Now since the hot ninety seven, Sister's number
one and everybody's clamming over you now, like I'm pretty
sure your phone is going off, the is ringing.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Yeah, we're going crazy, doing more shows. Definitely working on
a tour or two. You know, I'm able to have
more fans now, not just in my city, but I
have some fans out to Cleveland, Ohio.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
I was just in Gaveling.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Actually I did stream university big event. We was out there.
I didn't know I had that many fans in Cleveland.
I'm walking down the block. We atrono how I'm like hell?
But yeah, definitely some more shows, got some tours coming up,
and just just going crazy with the streaming and.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
What's your crazy? What's your dream collab? Like if you
had to lock into a studio, we go do a
couple of scenarios, right, So collab studio music, If you
gotta lock in with a producer and an artist, who
would that be?
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Producer? Wise, I want to go metro Booman metro Booman.
I feel like we like we could cook up something
so crazy. He's so creative, so I would say producer wise,
metro Boman music.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Wise, and Chopper M chop.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
That's interesting sound.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
His sound is fun. He's different.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
He's someone that even if he didn't want to do
no music no more, he could hop in the streaming lane.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
He can make the tiktoks. He can like he's a
funny guy. He's a good guy. So I think, uh,
those are my two people right there.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
I know somewhere down loud is going to happen. So
movie right, movie, Yes, if you could clap on the
movie or be in the movie, who would be your
your co actors and actresses you want to work with?
Speaker 3 (13:09):
I would do so. On the male side, I'm gonna
do DC Young Fly.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
He's he's like I feel like he should have ready
right now, being big movies and all that. But you know,
everything is God's time is gonna happen. But me and
him definitely need to be one. And on the girl's side,
I would say like I would say, like b Simone
is a good one or Zenda, Yeah, I think I
(13:32):
don't know how to how to how to work, but
he is a date of be in the movie.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Yeah, you made big news also well, Coco Jones, I
know he was hurt. Yeah, I know it just you, but.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
I know we all.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
We're all figure out that day when that Instagram posted them.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Listen, we all think, I'm like everybody's mad early morning.
Look they they're going to spoty page and looking at
him like you.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
On your favorite team.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
So yeah, you can't be made. Shout out. Shout out
to them, man, congratulations to them. And now you want
Now you want you a baddie. Now you're going to
Zeus Network.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Yeah, Now I'm gonna Zeus. I'm gonna find me one
of them baddies on Zeus. You will see me already
reality TV on the shame on one of them.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Yeah, especially hilarious, just to see you because I don't
know if you're gonna take that relationship serious.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Now I was gonna take serious, but you know what
I'm saying, We're not gonna find something else. So we're
gonna write the Zeus. That's I think that gotta work.
We're gonna figure it out.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
That's gonna be hilarious, gonna figure it out. Didn't want
to stream that because you want we want to see
that for real? Do you know who the first streamer was?
I think I think of my generation, the very first streamer.
He's a podcaster too right now.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
Mm hm m hm oh.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
He used to dude, he used to do blog TV.
He's just stream He used to stream his whole life live.
This had to be like oh six o seven mmm Joe, butden.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
Yo, I was thinking Joe. I swear to go and
think of Joe. Wait, so Joe was doing this back then?
Speaker 1 (15:29):
What Joe? If people don't know joke? Damn near creative podcasting.
But he did the blog It was called blog TV
at the time, and he streamed his whole life live
like he'll pop on and go live on And this
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is like an old five o six o seven way
like during that time, early mid two thousands.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
And I gotta go look that up.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
Look at.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
Love TV.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
A lot of people don't know about that. He used
to go like right away, go live online with cameras
and everything and his whole relationship things that was going on.
It will be live all live.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Yeah, a lot of people don't know that. He's potting.
He was potting before people became uh serious. So like
what we talk about that that realm? Where does it
go from here? And we talk about entertainment and streaming.
Where does it go? Because everybody's doing it, where does
it go from here?
Speaker 2 (16:35):
A lot of streamers, you know, our venturing off in
the you know, you got streamers now doing commercials like
Kay got a Nike deal and uh, people's getting commercials.
Some are going to get into acting. It's just like
the sky's the limit. It's just a whole bunch of
different stuff. You got streamers turning in the artists. Like
I think one of the biggest.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
Ones is like DDG.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
Yes, that's how I d from from artist first, well
for he was an artist, yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Yeah, so I discovered him he was a YouTuber and
now he's getting into the streaming world, but he's making music.
So he's one of those first people to really kind
of just show you like, look, I can do both.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
I can be an entertainer on the music on the
YouTube side, twitch side, and not can also make music.
So this guy's a limit.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
Like twits, stream has got a whole lot of opportunities
out there to just go grab.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Is it real? For more? For more?
Speaker 3 (17:25):
Absolutely?
Speaker 2 (17:26):
I mean everybody want to be a twist streamer. Everybody
want to be a content creator in general. So I
think it's room for everybody.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Is it real for old guys like me who looking
at strict? Can we do? Anybody want to say an
old guy like me stream like? What is?
Speaker 3 (17:40):
It depends?
Speaker 2 (17:41):
It depends on what what the top like, what you're
what you're talking about. I feel like it depends on
what you're talking about, because like even me, I'm twenty
three years old and I'm still tuning in to Drink Champs.
I'm still tuning into Joe Budden podcast, like I'm still
tuning into the Breakfast Club like, So it just depends
on what you're you know, what you're talking about. But
(18:01):
I think it's room for everybody for sure.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
Got ZEDDI will in the building. Man, he is the
up and come. I can't say up and coming. He
is out here. Uh, Like I did I play your
records when I DJ, so we got that sound. I
used to live out in Philly for a while, so
I know that Philly Jersey sounds. When I hear I
was like, oh yeah, I got to play this record Philly.
You produce your own music sometimes too, making beach correct.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Now, so I've never not yet. I definitely want to
get into it. I think I'm just kind of being
lazy right now. But I do want to get into
making my own beat. But now everything has been produced
really by.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
I heard a record that you posted on your Instagram
that you said you should put out. I don't know
what it was, but it was hard I forgot. I
always post yeah it with snippets like should I put
it out? And it got a bad response, because a
crazy response. I was like, yeah, that's a that's a
dope record. Not too long ago. She don't even know
(19:01):
you said shall I put this out? You was playing
the beer. It was a remix of something you chopped
some song up.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
I think it was a Chicago song, I think, And
if I didn't wrap over it, if it was just
a beat, then it had to be it's a Chicago
song that's going out that's a viral right now.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
And I put it out there and I said should
I hop on this beat? And it was like yo,
guess yeah. I got like three million views.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Like yes, I can hear you already on it if
that's what I'm that's talking about.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
Yeah, there was something dupe. I was like, yeah, sh
he should he should hop on that joint right now.
As Zadie will is in the building. Man, A wonderful
time speaking with you. I appreciate you. I know you're
a busy young man. You got things going on twenty three.
Living the life, yes, living life yes as you should. Man.
(19:51):
Don't listen, don't let nobody damn yo shine. You live
life the way you want to live and everything. So
are you dropping another project soon?
Speaker 3 (20:01):
We haven't.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
We haven't worked on that, I think right now. We're just,
you know, working the records that we got. I got
can't go broke remix that's out now, yup?
Speaker 3 (20:08):
And I do.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
And then I have for another record. Oh that's been
blowing up right now. So I'm just working the records
I got right now, Folcus in the noose promoting them,
and you know, we'll probably get to another tape soon.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
But I definitely dropped one. May second.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
If you start and listen to it, co set the tone.
Go listen to it, y'all. I'll just drop my first mixtape.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
And he's out there, And what is the next movie
you're going to be in? Because I know it's coming.
It's covie. Yeah, it's coming. I can feel it. It's coming.
To drop something.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
They need to make another they need to make another Friday.
They need to put me on Friday. It needs to
make a c.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
They they did. I think it's called last Friday. They listen, cue,
got the green light.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
You need for that. I'm in there.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
Talk to Chew, talk to Sean, tell him like, hey,
I need to get in this movie.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
Yeah I can play a little Chris Tucker ro I
could do.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
That every Yeah, yeah, I think you can. Man, you
don't on the comedic side. You don't think about getting
on stage.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
Oh, doing stand up.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
I did think about it, but then I literally when
I was thinking about transitioning and doing stand up music,
camp music started taking off, and I was like, I
focused on.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
Music, but I don't know. I want to try to
try everything.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
I don't care about that a lot too. I think
about trying to get on stage, Like I have dreams
of getting on stage doing comedy, and then I go
to the open mic. I'm like, nah, I ain't ready yet.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
I'm a little scared. Like you get a little nervous.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Oh no, it may not be funny. It's funny than me.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
But to them, yeah, my friends bought me funny, but
I don't know, that's a.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Different type of funny. Yeah, that the crooked and nobody
nobody talk yeah, dead silent. Nah. So you have tell
us what your your parents think about all this, like
did you did you finish college? Oh?
Speaker 2 (21:57):
No, so I only did one year. I took I
took a break after her. But you know, even with that,
it was just my mom, you know, the normal Oh no,
stay in school finished. You don't know if it's gonna
work the plan be. Even my dad like, oh, stay
in school. But they're proud now. Like my mom just
was at a show with me yesterday. She was on
stage with me, and like I always asking her, like, look,
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stop in school.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
Was it worth it that?
Speaker 1 (22:20):
Or she was like yeah yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
So my mom and dad they're happy with it. They're
having a good time. They living their life with me.
So every everybody good?
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Now, hey right good? Yeah, that first couple of months,
that first like I don't know, I.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
Don't know about this.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
They start seeing the motion pick up and the shows
and the money and other type of stuff.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
They're like, all you got do you?
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Almost use almost working at Chick fil A, it was.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
Almost asking if any extra sauce? Tell you?
Speaker 1 (22:48):
I tell you, is that leap? What made you take
that leap?
Speaker 2 (22:53):
I just believe in myself, like and like I think
when I really wanted to take the break from school.
At that point, I had like two point three two
point four million followers on TikTok and like four hundred
k on Instagram. I'm just like, there's not no reason
I have all these follows. It's not it's not for
no reason. I have all these people sending me these
messages and wanting to come watch me, like see me
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in person, and like, there's no reason. So I just
kind of just believe myself and I was like, let's
let's just do it.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
And it worked out.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
How did you who do you tell up a comer,
a streamer on what to do I how to monetize
their music, not even just their music, minor tize monetize themselves.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
I Mean, my biggest thing to people from the jump
is just being consistent because in the beginning, you won't
make money.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
Like it was a whole year.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
I'll tell us all the time, my whole first year
of making content, I didn't make no money. I think
the most money I've ever made from one thing was
forty dollars.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
So I was just doing it for the love of it,
just having.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
Fun with it, and I got up to probably like
a million followers still making no money. So I went
to tell people to be consistent and if you really
love doing it for other reasons, the money, you'll be fine.
The money will start coming in many different ways like this,
Like I feel like these brands and all these companies
want to give you money because we're the new you know,
we're like the new celebrities, the new celebrities.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
So you just keep working and you having time.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
I mean, it makes it easier for the brand. If
somebody got two three million followers already, that's they're like, oh,
it's a no brainer for them.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
Yeah, come on, Like our influence is crazy, like they us.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
Yeah, it's crazy. So are you are you looking at
the venture overseas? I've seen I Speed I think that's
his name, went overseas and yeah I showed Speed. They
damn their fainted.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
Yeah he's in Poland. He can go to China, Brazil,
go anywhere and have thousands people out there. Yeah, I
definitely want to go to like Australia. I was definitely
told you some people in Australia.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
Great country, great country. I've been in great country.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
I've never been. I've never been. I think the only
place I've been out the country too is like Jamaica.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
But I definitely want to go out and either whether
I do a show or just something I want to see.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
You know how how much the people overseas like rock
with me?
Speaker 1 (25:07):
What what if it's a country you want to visit?
What one of your countries that you would visit?
Speaker 3 (25:13):
I want to go. I want to go to Australia, bad, man,
it's a great country. I want to go bad Sydney, Brisbane,
I want to go bad.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
I went to New Zealand when my wife went to
New Zealand and Australia on the same uh, on the
same trip. Yeah, I got stuck in New Zealand though
for real, Yeah, they wouldn't let me out. They would
Australia wouldn't let me in do some paperwork issues. It
was it was bad with my stuff, right yeah, yeah
do that like they got because you got to fill
out all this stuff and they they flagged me. It's
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like nope, you gotta send more stuff out.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
I'll make sure I got myself ready.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
No, it's it's good. We were travelers, man, get out
the country. See see you to see the world man,
and and and make more content. I appreciate you take
your time out coming on my show.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
Thank you. I appreciate you having me shout to Ohio man, shout,
when are you.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
Coming back out here? Can we get you out here?
Like what we gotta do to get you out here
to perform? Like what we gotta do?
Speaker 2 (26:08):
S Price, I'm friends man, he makes everything happen. He's
mister making happen. So I'm gonna show you. Talk to them,
y'all got a leadership.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
We gotta wanta. We gotta get you out here. We
gotta get you out here and and do do a show.
Let's get it and and and move around the city.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
Let's get it.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
Appreciate your good brother man, Thank you. Have a good
day you too. Peace. Appreciate you. Chanel, Appreciate you.
Can you hear me? Yeah, I gave you yeap. Yeah,
we're good.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Got when you turn my camera around so you could
we solid boom, Okay here it is.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, you're good. You're good to go. How
you feeling but look good? How you doing good? Blessing
Blessing Chrystyles out of Cleveland, Ohio, w OVERU ninety five
point down FM, also the Christyles Show podcast. So hold on,
we'll go, keep going on. Let me give you a proper,
proper introduction, the proper uh Zeddi Will the rising star
from Queensbridge, Queens, New York, represented departure from the classic
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New York hip hop narrative. His journey is just being Crazy,
Known for its distinctive blended punchy lyrics, lyricisms, and New
York flare. Zeddi boats four point eight million monthly listeners
on Spotify, ten million on TikTok, one million on Instagram,
over probably over a million subscribers now on YouTube at
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as we talk right now with twerking with your friends
getting jiggy, and we can't forget that the chop tarpet
your number one hit cha chaw right now we're talking
about can't go Broke number one one week. That's a
top two hundred sis one point five million streams. Everybody
(01:20):
give it up one time for Zeeddy Wills is in
the builded this guy, I mean rapper. Billboard gave you
top fifteen African American R and B artists to watch
out for for twenty twenty five. How does that feel post?
I don't think you R and B, but you know
Billboard don't know.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Yeah yeah nah, I feel good Like that was really
one of my biggest accomplishments. Like just being recognized as
an artist was just something I wanted, but being recognized
to that level like it's billbos So, I feel good.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. I think one of the amazing
things from you is is watching your come up from
that song cha chaw. I'm also being a TikToker right,
and I just think you are what we call now
the new term of creator, Right, You're creator. How does
that feel being the creator? Because some people say when
they started off as a TikTok artist but they found
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out on the radar that you really can rap rap. Uh.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
It felt good, like I said, like just me working
for that, just me working to be seen more than
just a you know TikToker or TikTok artists because I
got a bunch of different you know abilities.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
I can even run track like people.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
A lot of people don't know, but I grew up
running track and I went to college for running track
on the scholarship.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
So just being able to show, like the world all
my talents it felt good.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
So, you know, me going on the radar and giving
them a good freestyle and retrip.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Yeah, appreciate you, but yeah, we're working. We're working.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
So it's definitely all the foods my labor, showing right now,
foods to my labor.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
And being from New York because he said the New
York sound changed, and ask when we're listening to your
music by familiar with you have that New York sound
but also that Jersey Philly club essence that, well, how
did you build and create your sound when when you started, uh,
being an artist?
Speaker 2 (03:10):
I really just went for like beats that just popped
to me and that sounded fun and that made you
want to move like that was my main thing. I
definitely did start from the New Jersey you know, club beats.
You know, I started with like my first song was
Freak I was using the Jo Desy sample and then
to working with your friends was one of my biggest,
I think my biggest, one of my biggest Jersey club
songs and get Jiggy. But then I also like the
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new New Orleans sounds, the New Orleans bounce music. So
I just go for whatever's fun, whatever pops and whatever
get the people moving.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
That's that's any music for.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
You, and it's and it's dope to it because it's
going to have fun. It shows your personality and especially
being from New York. Now, how does that feel that
that weight of being for New York where the birthplace
of hip hop, right, and so it's not the traditional
boomback sound coming out in New York and then not
just from you, from different artists from uh the drill
(04:04):
music you have in New York to to your style.
How was the veterans of New York taking this?
Speaker 3 (04:12):
They loving it so far?
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Like I think a lot of veterans are just happy
that I'm, you know, being free and using all other
sounds other than like the typical New York drill.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
You know, that's that's what a lot of people from
New York are doing. There's a New York drill.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
But I think they're happy that I'm you know, I'm
getting back and you know, using good samples and not
just doing the drill and not only doing a Jersey club,
but like I said, going to the other lands doing
like people doing Brazilian funk.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
You Cashco Bang doing Brazilian funk.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
You got me hopping to the New Orleans and I'm
doing Chicago style beats now.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
So I think they taking it good anything.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
It ain't killing nobody right right.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
I think they all go with it.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Yeah, and plus New York. When they said New York
would left the building or they're not hot anymore, then
you name you and and everybody that's coming out in
New York. They they don't realize guys are from New York.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Yeah, we're all from New York.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
You know, a lot of people think I'm from like
New Jersey or Philly because I use a lot of
those beats, But yeah, I'm from New York, Queens.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Bridge right with nas and my deep everybody from.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Yeah, who is your favorite artist coming up? That's a
good question.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
My favorite so my top three?
Speaker 2 (05:15):
So I like old school music, like I like, I
love I feel like y'all music was the best music,
Like the nineties and eighties was that's the best music.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
But I go eminem, Nas and Hove like.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Those are my top three I listen to like you
can literally go I'm twenty three years old. You can
go on my Spotify, go on my Apple Music and
I bumped some albums and I listened to all the music.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Those are my top two.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Let me tell you about It's an album from Whole
that I have not listened to, and people beginning on
my back for the past three four years, I have
not listened to this album. Kennom come. I still have
not listened to the album.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
I refuse that the red that's what the that's the
red album cover?
Speaker 1 (05:49):
I think, so I refuse to listen to the album.
I despised the album.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
I think, what's on that album? Show what you got?
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Yeah, show me what you got.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
I think that's why I did listen to it because
of that song.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
You got to No. I love I love. I love
going back and listening to a lot of old school music.
But that's that's what I kind of grew up on.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
And like eminem is one of the styles that a
lot of people say, like mine, emilate because this is
just fun.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
It's poppy and it's creative.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
So it is. And you you just have a wonderful team.
I know a couple of your guys that that's on
your team. We talked about Power Moves. I've seen they
build that for a long time and Sean Prais has
been in the game for thirty years. I love the
way how they taking around. And then it hurt Hot
ninety seven for the Summer Jam. It was dead until
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you got on stage. Tell me about that. For the
performing that hot that I know you went to a
million of them. How does that fit? Talk about that
that experience.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Well, first, I don't to give you, like you said,
shout out to Power Moves, shout out to Sean Prez Jersey. Now,
those are my people. Those are the people I work
with every single day in and out. I have the
best team. I always got the best team. And people
don't understand why I sat at the best team. You know,
legit they them people. But on the Summer Jam, like
you know, I headlined the festival stage. The show people
(07:18):
that don't know about the festival stage is the show
right before the main show.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
So I did that.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
I went crazy, you know, I had Busta ROMs was
down there watching, and a bunch of my.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Fans and supporters out there. I went crazy, and.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Then I got to go out with Jim Jones, New
York legend.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
He brought me out on the main stage.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
I came out and I was seeing like the flashlights
and everybody was yelling, screaming. That was my first time
performing and oh yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, yeah, that was
my first time performing in an arena. So I got
a lot of good feedback. High ninety seven loved it,
the fans loved it. My mom was in the crowd,
my brothers and my sisters, so definitely it was good.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
What did you ever think of that? I mean, you
grew up there five Let's go back, Zeddy, let's think.
Let's talk about that ten year old kid right sitting
at home. Uh did you think you would ever get
on that stage? Was that your first level? Your first level?
What was your first love before it became this music track?
Speaker 2 (08:17):
I loved running track like that was my main thing
all throughout middle school, high school, Like I went to
I went to how.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
You six foot? I think I did mad research on
you six foot? So either it was a law jumper
or a spreader.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Nope, I did the eight hundred in the mile. I
wasn't even that. I didn't do the traditional events re mile.
I was out there six to one, run around the
track two three, four times like that was my events.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
But eight hundred is a crazy event though.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Yeah, I mean it's a sprind now it's a sprind
yea yeahs like a spread But yeah, my first love
was never music.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
My first love is never even comedy.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
I mean growing up, I was always the you know,
the class clown or the food that got kicked out
of you know classes, And I gotta kick out a
lot of schools because I just wanted to make jokes
a lot. But yeah, I was. I was tracked. So
to be on the main stage at Summer Jam. It
was never like a dream, never on the bucket list,
but being in a moment fro really good.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
I know, I know it did feel good for uh
Zi will Is in the building, hear number one artists
just coming out up and coming. And now I see you.
I don't know how long ago you how long you've
been on it, but I see you viser into twitch
now being a streamer. How how tell us that that
navigation of still have to do TikTok, still have to
(09:37):
be a streamer period on all platforms. How do you
navigate through that daily right?
Speaker 3 (09:42):
I would say, like I said, my team.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
My team helps me and you know in scheduling and
making sure we have time to you know, I have
time to make some tiktoks and promote my music, or
have time to just be in a studio or have
time to do my streams. But I think the biggest
thing transitioning into streaming was to not venture often try
to do other stuff like I'm streaming my my performances,
(10:05):
I'm streaming me in the studio, I'm streaming me collabing
with other artists, and we're not doing music where we
probably go to six Flags or where do paint and
SIPs like you know. I like to just be creative
and do a bunch of things. So getting into the
streaming lane it ain't been half for me, and I'm happy.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
I'm enjoying it a lot because I see it. I
see you pop off and now like okay, okay, he's
vien you on to another and tell another one to
see what pops off on that one. Zadi Wills is
in the building, tell us about this new record. Man,
did you think it was the first week?
Speaker 3 (10:35):
Man?
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Did you go the first week? Did you realize that?
He was like, Okay, I just dropped it all of
a sudden, shoot through charts.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
Yo.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
When I've seen the streams doing two hundred three hundred
thousand strings a day, hit a million the first week,
I'm like, WHOA. But it's always those records that you
just never know, Like that original song dropped last year
in July. You know, they and shot the jewels. He's
a producer from New York. He just put a new.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
Beat on it and it's blown up. Now I didn't
Number one country is crazy.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
That is crazy, right. That means that somebody actually pressing
that button, like you gotta press the button when you
hear it. What song is that?
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Exactly?
Speaker 1 (11:13):
What song is that?
Speaker 3 (11:14):
You know? You know it's so crazy. Our generation, nobody want.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
To ask what's soon it is? Everybody want to go ahead,
she's there. But it makes me feel good, you know,
it makes me know that people's out there trying to
figure out, you know, what's this song? And then you
know it just people discover me every day. So that's
making this a lot better.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
For me and now after you what news opportunities that
came about? Now since the hot ninety seven, Sister's number
one and everybody's clamming over you now, like I'm pretty
sure your phone is going off, the is ringing.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Yeah, we're going crazy, doing more shows. Definitely working on
a tour or two. You know, I'm able to have
more fans now, not just in my city, but I
have some fans out to Cleveland, Ohio.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
I was just in Gaveling.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Actually I did stream university big event. We was out there.
I didn't know I had that many fans in Cleveland.
I'm walking down the block. We atrono how I'm like hell?
But yeah, definitely some more shows, got some tours coming up,
and just just going crazy with the streaming and.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
What's your crazy? What's your dream collab? Like if you
had to lock into a studio, we go do a
couple of scenarios, right, So collab studio music, If you
gotta lock in with a producer and an artist, who
would that be?
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Producer? Wise, I want to go metro Booman metro Booman.
I feel like we like we could cook up something
so crazy. He's so creative, so I would say producer wise,
metro Boman music.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Wise, and Chopper M chop.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
That's interesting sound.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
His sound is fun. He's different.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
He's someone that even if he didn't want to do
no music no more, he could hop in the streaming lane.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
He can make the tiktoks. He can like he's a
funny guy. He's a good guy. So I think, uh,
those are my two people right there.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
I know somewhere down loud is going to happen. So
movie right, movie, Yes, if you could clap on the
movie or be in the movie, who would be your
your co actors and actresses you want to work with?
Speaker 3 (13:09):
I would do so. On the male side, I'm gonna
do DC Young Fly.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
He's he's like I feel like he should have ready
right now, being big movies and all that. But you know,
everything is God's time is gonna happen. But me and
him definitely need to be one. And on the girl's side,
I would say like I would say, like b Simone
is a good one or Zenda, Yeah, I think I
(13:32):
don't know how to how to how to work, but
he is a date of be in the movie.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Yeah, you made big news also well, Coco Jones, I
know he was hurt. Yeah, I know it just you, but.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
I know we all.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
We're all figure out that day when that Instagram posted them.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Listen, we all think, I'm like everybody's mad early morning.
Look they they're going to spoty page and looking at
him like you.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
On your favorite team.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
So yeah, you can't be made. Shout out. Shout out
to them, man, congratulations to them. And now you want
Now you want you a baddie. Now you're going to
Zeus Network.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Yeah, Now I'm gonna Zeus. I'm gonna find me one
of them baddies on Zeus. You will see me already
reality TV on the shame on one of them.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Yeah, especially hilarious, just to see you because I don't
know if you're gonna take that relationship serious.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Now I was gonna take serious, but you know what
I'm saying, We're not gonna find something else. So we're
gonna write the Zeus. That's I think that gotta work.
We're gonna figure it out.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
That's gonna be hilarious, gonna figure it out. Didn't want
to stream that because you want we want to see
that for real? Do you know who the first streamer was?
I think I think of my generation, the very first streamer.
He's a podcaster too right now.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
Mm hm m hm oh.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
He used to dude, he used to do blog TV.
He's just stream He used to stream his whole life live.
This had to be like oh six o seven mmm Joe, butden.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
Yo, I was thinking Joe. I swear to go and
think of Joe. Wait, so Joe was doing this back then?
Speaker 1 (15:29):
What Joe? If people don't know joke? Damn near creative podcasting.
But he did the blog It was called blog TV
at the time, and he streamed his whole life live
like he'll pop on and go live on And this
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is like an old five o six o seven way
like during that time, early mid two thousands.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
And I gotta go look that up.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
Look at.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
Love TV.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
A lot of people don't know about that. He used
to go like right away, go live online with cameras
and everything and his whole relationship things that was going on.
It will be live all live.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Yeah, a lot of people don't know that. He's potting.
He was potting before people became uh serious. So like
what we talk about that that realm? Where does it
go from here? And we talk about entertainment and streaming.
Where does it go? Because everybody's doing it, where does
it go from here?
Speaker 2 (16:35):
A lot of streamers, you know, our venturing off in
the you know, you got streamers now doing commercials like
Kay got a Nike deal and uh, people's getting commercials.
Some are going to get into acting. It's just like
the sky's the limit. It's just a whole bunch of
different stuff. You got streamers turning in the artists. Like
I think one of the biggest.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
Ones is like DDG.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
Yes, that's how I d from from artist first, well
for he was an artist, yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Yeah, so I discovered him he was a YouTuber and
now he's getting into the streaming world, but he's making music.
So he's one of those first people to really kind
of just show you like, look, I can do both.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
I can be an entertainer on the music on the
YouTube side, twitch side, and not can also make music.
So this guy's a limit.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
Like twits, stream has got a whole lot of opportunities
out there to just go grab.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Is it real? For more? For more?
Speaker 3 (17:25):
Absolutely?
Speaker 2 (17:26):
I mean everybody want to be a twist streamer. Everybody
want to be a content creator in general. So I
think it's room for everybody.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Is it real for old guys like me who looking
at strict? Can we do? Anybody want to say an
old guy like me stream like? What is?
Speaker 3 (17:40):
It depends?
Speaker 2 (17:41):
It depends on what what the top like, what you're
what you're talking about. I feel like it depends on
what you're talking about, because like even me, I'm twenty
three years old and I'm still tuning in to Drink Champs.
I'm still tuning into Joe Budden podcast, like I'm still
tuning into the Breakfast Club like, So it just depends
on what you're you know, what you're talking about. But
(18:01):
I think it's room for everybody for sure.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
Got ZEDDI will in the building. Man, he is the
up and come. I can't say up and coming. He
is out here. Uh, Like I did I play your
records when I DJ, so we got that sound. I
used to live out in Philly for a while, so
I know that Philly Jersey sounds. When I hear I
was like, oh yeah, I got to play this record Philly.
You produce your own music sometimes too, making beach correct.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Now, so I've never not yet. I definitely want to
get into it. I think I'm just kind of being
lazy right now. But I do want to get into
making my own beat. But now everything has been produced
really by.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
I heard a record that you posted on your Instagram
that you said you should put out. I don't know
what it was, but it was hard I forgot. I
always post yeah it with snippets like should I put
it out? And it got a bad response, because a
crazy response. I was like, yeah, that's a that's a
dope record. Not too long ago. She don't even know
(19:01):
you said shall I put this out? You was playing
the beer. It was a remix of something you chopped
some song up.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
I think it was a Chicago song, I think, And
if I didn't wrap over it, if it was just
a beat, then it had to be it's a Chicago
song that's going out that's a viral right now.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
And I put it out there and I said should
I hop on this beat? And it was like yo,
guess yeah. I got like three million views.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Like yes, I can hear you already on it if
that's what I'm that's talking about.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
Yeah, there was something dupe. I was like, yeah, sh
he should he should hop on that joint right now.
As Zadie will is in the building. Man, A wonderful
time speaking with you. I appreciate you. I know you're
a busy young man. You got things going on twenty three.
Living the life, yes, living life yes as you should. Man.
(19:51):
Don't listen, don't let nobody damn yo shine. You live
life the way you want to live and everything. So
are you dropping another project soon?
Speaker 3 (20:01):
We haven't.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
We haven't worked on that, I think right now. We're just,
you know, working the records that we got. I got
can't go broke remix that's out now, yup?
Speaker 3 (20:08):
And I do.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
And then I have for another record. Oh that's been
blowing up right now. So I'm just working the records
I got right now, Folcus in the noose promoting them,
and you know, we'll probably get to another tape soon.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
But I definitely dropped one. May second.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
If you start and listen to it, co set the tone.
Go listen to it, y'all. I'll just drop my first mixtape.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
And he's out there, And what is the next movie
you're going to be in? Because I know it's coming.
It's covie. Yeah, it's coming. I can feel it. It's coming.
To drop something.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
They need to make another they need to make another Friday.
They need to put me on Friday. It needs to
make a c.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
They they did. I think it's called last Friday. They listen, cue,
got the green light.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
You need for that. I'm in there.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
Talk to Chew, talk to Sean, tell him like, hey,
I need to get in this movie.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
Yeah I can play a little Chris Tucker ro I
could do.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
That every Yeah, yeah, I think you can. Man, you
don't on the comedic side. You don't think about getting
on stage.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
Oh, doing stand up.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
I did think about it, but then I literally when
I was thinking about transitioning and doing stand up music,
camp music started taking off, and I was like, I
focused on.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
Music, but I don't know. I want to try to
try everything.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
I don't care about that a lot too. I think
about trying to get on stage, Like I have dreams
of getting on stage doing comedy, and then I go
to the open mic. I'm like, nah, I ain't ready yet.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
I'm a little scared. Like you get a little nervous.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Oh no, it may not be funny. It's funny than me.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
But to them, yeah, my friends bought me funny, but
I don't know, that's a.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Different type of funny. Yeah, that the crooked and nobody
nobody talk yeah, dead silent. Nah. So you have tell
us what your your parents think about all this, like
did you did you finish college? Oh?
Speaker 2 (21:57):
No, so I only did one year. I took I
took a break after her. But you know, even with that,
it was just my mom, you know, the normal Oh no,
stay in school finished. You don't know if it's gonna
work the plan be. Even my dad like, oh, stay
in school. But they're proud now. Like my mom just
was at a show with me yesterday. She was on
stage with me, and like I always asking her, like, look,
(22:18):
stop in school.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
Was it worth it that?
Speaker 1 (22:20):
Or she was like yeah yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
So my mom and dad they're happy with it. They're
having a good time. They living their life with me.
So every everybody good?
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Now, hey right good? Yeah, that first couple of months,
that first like I don't know, I.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
Don't know about this.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
They start seeing the motion pick up and the shows
and the money and other type of stuff.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
They're like, all you got do you?
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Almost use almost working at Chick fil A, it was.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
Almost asking if any extra sauce? Tell you?
Speaker 1 (22:48):
I tell you, is that leap? What made you take
that leap?
Speaker 2 (22:53):
I just believe in myself, like and like I think
when I really wanted to take the break from school.
At that point, I had like two point three two
point four million followers on TikTok and like four hundred
k on Instagram. I'm just like, there's not no reason
I have all these follows. It's not it's not for
no reason. I have all these people sending me these
messages and wanting to come watch me, like see me
(23:16):
in person, and like, there's no reason. So I just
kind of just believe myself and I was like, let's
let's just do it.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
And it worked out.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
How did you who do you tell up a comer,
a streamer on what to do I how to monetize
their music, not even just their music, minor tize monetize themselves.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
I Mean, my biggest thing to people from the jump
is just being consistent because in the beginning, you won't
make money.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
Like it was a whole year.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
I'll tell us all the time, my whole first year
of making content, I didn't make no money. I think
the most money I've ever made from one thing was
forty dollars.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
So I was just doing it for the love of it,
just having.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
Fun with it, and I got up to probably like
a million followers still making no money. So I went
to tell people to be consistent and if you really
love doing it for other reasons, the money, you'll be fine.
The money will start coming in many different ways like this,
Like I feel like these brands and all these companies
want to give you money because we're the new you know,
we're like the new celebrities, the new celebrities.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
So you just keep working and you having time.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
I mean, it makes it easier for the brand. If
somebody got two three million followers already, that's they're like, oh,
it's a no brainer for them.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
Yeah, come on, Like our influence is crazy, like they us.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
Yeah, it's crazy. So are you are you looking at
the venture overseas? I've seen I Speed I think that's
his name, went overseas and yeah I showed Speed. They
damn their fainted.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
Yeah he's in Poland. He can go to China, Brazil,
go anywhere and have thousands people out there. Yeah, I
definitely want to go to like Australia. I was definitely
told you some people in Australia.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
Great country, great country. I've been in great country.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
I've never been. I've never been. I think the only
place I've been out the country too is like Jamaica.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
But I definitely want to go out and either whether
I do a show or just something I want to see.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
You know how how much the people overseas like rock
with me?
Speaker 1 (25:07):
What what if it's a country you want to visit?
What one of your countries that you would visit?
Speaker 3 (25:13):
I want to go. I want to go to Australia, bad, man,
it's a great country. I want to go bad Sydney, Brisbane,
I want to go bad.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
I went to New Zealand when my wife went to
New Zealand and Australia on the same uh, on the
same trip. Yeah, I got stuck in New Zealand though
for real, Yeah, they wouldn't let me out. They would
Australia wouldn't let me in do some paperwork issues. It
was it was bad with my stuff, right yeah, yeah
do that like they got because you got to fill
out all this stuff and they they flagged me. It's
(25:42):
like nope, you gotta send more stuff out.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
I'll make sure I got myself ready.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
No, it's it's good. We were travelers, man, get out
the country. See see you to see the world man,
and and and make more content. I appreciate you take
your time out coming on my show.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
Thank you. I appreciate you having me shout to Ohio man, shout,
when are you.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
Coming back out here? Can we get you out here?
Like what we gotta do to get you out here
to perform? Like what we gotta do?
Speaker 2 (26:08):
S Price, I'm friends man, he makes everything happen. He's
mister making happen. So I'm gonna show you. Talk to them,
y'all got a leadership.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
We gotta wanta. We gotta get you out here. We
gotta get you out here and and do do a show.
Let's get it and and and move around the city.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
Let's get it.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
Appreciate your good brother man, Thank you. Have a good
day you too. Peace. Appreciate you. Chanel, Appreciate you.
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